Re: CHAT: Being taken for a furriner ...
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 31, 2004, 17:14 |
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:32:20 +0100, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> I've found the MA accent to sound very, very similar to an English one.
> Probably not a northerner, but an Englishman nonetheless.
Indeed. As a child, watching (reruns of) M*A*s*H, I got to wondering what
an English guy was doing being a surgeon in the American Army. The Harvard
accent has more RP features than some British accents, to my ear.
Paul